Jet Lag
Date: 19 Oct 2009 Comments:0Covering this topic will surely help you to better understand how to deal with similar situations.
Jet Lag is the second most common sleep disorder and generally affects international flights and if it is domestic if they are going between time zones.
This is what you call knocking your body clock out of synch since when you are travelling across different time zones particularly at the international level because that can throw you off a full day if you’re coming from the west going Est from New York to London or Los Angeles to Tokyo the capital of Japan or Sydney which can throw you off because you cross the international date line which is one day ahead and behind.
It appears as if women are more touched than men and according to medical reports its since the natural hormone estrogen and it is activated when the body when habituated to normal daytime and nighttime rhythms therefore you are upsetting the body’s natural state of matching with a specific time of day and it can even disturb eating patterns as well. It can take up to various days to even a full week to recover some normality on the time and place once you have had time to sleep yourself into accommodation mode.
The symptoms of jet lag vary by the individual person and symptoms can include or be a combination of dehydration which can activate minor disorientation, and loss of appetite, headaches and sinus discomforts, fatigue, grogginess, sickness and/or vomiting from an upset stomach, irritability, and mild depression. Jet lag is not coupled to the length of a flight, but the transmerdian distance traveled. For example if you flew from New York and Los Angeles which is around 5 hours you will feel some jet lag crossing the Central and Mountain time zones. Jet lag can be highly difficult in places like Alaska and Russia because of the fact that Alaska only sees a short quantity of daytime and Russian Federation has eleven different time zones and can really throw someone off if they were flying from Copenhagen to Tokyo.
Generally people that are inclined to this are often given sedatives by their MDs to assist them sleep through the flight and to wake up without the effects of jet lag when they land in their destination.
Manners to recuperate quicker from jet lag is proper alimentation, physical exercise, and sleep because you’ll be surprised to know that people who do not sleep or get sufficient rest and relaxation will deal with it later when they land and the disorientation sets in. Sunlight concording to doctors say can help reset your body’s clock back in synch.
It is arduous to pinpoint the severity of jet lag because it affects people differently and normally people who travel on international flights are less likely to deal with jet lag because they are used to the unceasing change. And as indicated earlier have manage to adapt to those changes since some travel every month for business and usually it is business travelers who deal with jet lag more than those who go for holidays.
Business travelers fly at odd times which can throw someone off since they are flying out super early or catching the red eye somewhere to arrive the next day.
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